Ned Falk shows how use SAP BW 7.4 HANA Analysis Process, a new tool that improves on and complements the existing Analysis Process Designer (APD) for executing data-mining algorithms and storing procedures using the power of SAP HANA via an SAP BW interface.

by George Holdsworth, Senior Principal System Architect with Honors, Enterprise Business Intelligence, Raytheon Company
July 26, 2012

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George Holdsworth of Raytheon explains how his team determines whether BI metrics are best calculated by the Analysis Process Designer, a Data Transfer Process, custom ABAP, or Layered, Scalable Architecture. The article includes a decision tree to help make your choice.

In addition to its traditional use for data mining purposes, you can also use Analysis Process Designer (APD) for data extraction when you have large amounts of data and complex queries. Find out how one company set up this process.

mySAP CRM Analytics, a group of tools offered with mySAP CRM and SAP NetWeaver BI, can help you optimize your company’s customer data. Learn about the mySAP CRM extraction mechanism and delivered analysis tools you can use with your data.

Go beyond data warehousing to data mining. You can use Analysis Process Designer (APD) to discover hard-to-find trends that allow your company to make more informed decisions. Learn what APD is, how it differs from data warehousing, and how to implement it.

As landscapes become more complicated and involve a plethora of sources, a reconciliation method becomes more crucial in reporting financial information. Analysis Process Designer (APD) can help reconcile your financial data.

Profiling key figures and characteristics in ODS objects, PSA data, and BW queries can be difficult, time consuming, and inefficient. The updated Analysis Process Designer tool in BW 3.5 vastly improves your ability to profile data, giving you more options to understand your data. Here’s how you do it.